162:"In the middle of the night an aeroplane is stolen from the little Queensland township of Golden Dawn. Next day it is found undamaged on the floor of a dry lake 184 miles away. The pilot is missing, but in the passenger's seat reclines a girl, paralysed in every nerve by an unknown drug. For miles round there is not a track, not a footstep, nor a clue to suggest how the pilot, or whoever had poisoned her, managed to leave the machine after it had landed."
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descriptions of the
Diamantina and its inhabitants both block and white, have all the force of sincerity. His graphic power is most happily illustrated in descriptions of natural phenomena–the coming of an enormous sand cloud, gathering storm clouds seen from an aeroplane, the Diamantina in flood. This is an aspect of his work which will appeal to Australians particularly, and is, perhaps, Mr. Upfield, most important achievement."
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Australian thrillerdom." This after they had noted: "The book is packed with action. There are a dare-devil flying doctor adventures in swimming a storm-flooded river and a graphic description of flying above a sand-cloud which 'had the
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face of a moving cliff four thousand feet high. The sunlight slanting sharply upon it brought into sharp relief bulging escarpments and inward sucking caverns. It was as though this enormous thing was living; that as it advanced across the world it was actually breathing.'"
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